New ilumi 4+

I’ve had my ilumi bulbs for about 6 months and they’re great. They are so much fun to play with and obviously great functionality. I am not the kind of person who wakes up with an alarm so I use the schedule to help turn on the lights when it’s time for me to wake up and it’s still dark outside. The lights will automatically shut off about 20 minutes after I leave my house to go to work and that is also done by the schedule. That to me is honestly my favorite feature because I have them also scheduled to come on every night before I come home so the house isn’t dark. My only issue with my loom he is my husband and I are a bit confused on how to use the app on each of our phones. Allowing him “access” to control them doesn’t work as planned so the way we have worked it out unfortunately only lets one of us to have control at a time. Both of us can’t have the app open to control the bulbs on our individual nightstands. Other than that i love it!

I backed these bulbs on Kickstarter and was so excited to get them. I ended up changing EVERY bulb in my house. About 50 bulbs. I wanted to be that house with the fancy music light show. While this worked decent in the old app it hasn’t work for crap since. I had company over and was gong to show off my lights. Had been a whole since trying. Guess what. Huge failure. My bulbs looked like a joke. TBH. The bulbs are great quality. I have one that no longer works unless it wants too. It’s was less than a year old when it stopped. I got the strip off Kickstarter and it started in my bedroom and was awesome till it came on in the middle of the night and woke the wife. This did not happen just once but multiple times. They are know on the back porch and I do catch them on every so often and have to open the app to turn off. In the end I am so disappointed. I hardly ever open the app as it is such garbage. I have a bunch of smart lights that are as good as some cheap led lamps you can buy anywhere. Safe the heartache. Just checked and noticed it’s been a year since an update has been made to the app. Wow! Guess they don’t care obviously. I am currently open to new options but have so much invested here I may just keep hitting the light switch on and off and call it a day. Thanks for nothing Ilumi. I have waited years for you to get better!

When these first came out they were sort of a simpler, possibly less expensive alternative to Philips Hue etc… it seemed to me that there were more required components to their competitors’ products which meant more $ to get them up and running. The ilumi bulbs could be purchased singly and run simply by one free app.

I bought two to try them out and I liked them. The colors are very vibrant. Over the years they have held out with no issues and I since have purchased 2 more bulbs.

At this time I’m getting leery of this company’s lack of attention to this product. The app hasn’t been updated in 5 years and that is a real concern for me investing in any more bulbs. I am also not certain if they’re even producing the bulbs anymore. I bought the last few bulbs I purchased off of eBay. Not sure if the company even has anything in stock (or any plans for the future of ilumi) anymore.